KIBLIX 2011

Abstract

International festival KIBLIX, Maribor, Slovenia 18 – 23 NOV, 2011

Mednarodni festival KIBLIX, Maribor, Slovenija, 18. – 23. november 2011

general intro, Shift from DIY to DIWO? partner festival MFRU, maribor 2012

Keywords

Education. Workshops. Installations. Performances. Presentations. Lab.

Izobraževanje. Delavnice. Instalacije. Performansi. Predstavitve. Laboratorij.

Overview

KIBLIX 2011 Educational Program - festival as a lab - will have a strong focus on education, hands-on making, collaboration and sharing of knowledge. The educational program is, on one side, addressing emerging artists to participate in professional / advanced workshops and exhibiting the outputs during the festival, and on the other side is reaching out to the public and the youth with various mini-workshops on creative and playful technology&art projects.

KIBLIX 2011 Festival - festival as a cultural performance - aims to be a platform where artists, who are hungry to know what researchers are doing and thinking, and researchers, jealous to know of artistic experimentation come together to explore, discuss and share their ideas.

Partner Festival MFRU will happen at the same time also in Maribor. With its long tradition as an international computer arts festival they invited an interesting program of a/v performances, in collaboration with Optofonica (NL) and will have various Slovenian artists exhibiting and giving presentations. More on http://www.mfru.org/

Draft program

Background

dejan

KIBLIX history, KIBLA in general, connection and histrory with MFRU, Maribor and capitol of culture 2012 etc

KIBLA & SGMK Co-Curation

Curational Statement

marc, dejan, pei, miha

From The Cabinet of Curiosity to Day of Wonder, for the last 200 years, public appreciation of knowing and understanding art, technology and science has transformed from a closed circle to open field, the knowledge of participating with hand-on experiences enhanced the experiences of sharing while doing, a priceless ideology forward into practice. " Share is in the Art" the theme of Kiblix Festival 2011 invite international, regional artist, tinker, hacker, scientist, philosopher, educator, social science engineer and writer with a particular emphasis on swiss participants to discuss the format of " festival as lab"; in that :

- festival with educational focus aka festival as alternative means of self-education

- festival that has impact on a local society in a long term

- festival as laboratories for sharing of knowledge and hands-on collaborative making

- festival as collaboration and network of international artists and regional community aka living, making and eating together

- festival as build-up of regional DIWO culture

Regional impact of KIBLIX 2011

dejan, pei

Kibla as organizer insists on wide sprayed of experts involved to communicate, to present and to cooperate. Long-term structural concepts enabled by Kiblix activities, aiming to establish a significant impact on regional reconnection of interested group in practicing, acting, writing and interacting wihtin/beyond the field of art, technology, media and social practices. Recent shiftings by the mode of rapid and open communication, in which emerges a significant impact on certain opinion-making target groups in the central European region. A growing demand for more cultural services and intellectual products towards knowledge and skill sharing, that is dictated by target groups – postmodern consumers whose behavior results in search for particular symbols and value marks which define the proceeding as artwork and as well the aftermath as networks. These trends correspond with the level of education. Innovation of society is encouraged by artistic heritage, processes of creation, references – in other words, by physical and non-material outputs of creative production in connection with other activities.

Organisational Team

The making of KIBLIX 2011 - Organisational Team started with Dejan Pestotnik's | Producer (Kibla) and Miha Horvat's | Coordinator (son:DA) invitation to Marc Dusseiller | Liu, Pei-Wen | (SGMK) with a task to co-curate-ordinate the KIBLIX 2011. With the help of both local artists and students form Maribor this new born collaboration with a team of Swiss coordinators, workshop mentors and artists, we are becoming highly international and great expert group for the professional organisation of KIBLIX 2011.

Pre KIBLIX 2011 Collaborations

Preceding the start of the KIBLIX 2011 festival, we have already initiated various collaborations between Swiss communities and artists/initiatives from Slovenia/Maribor. Earliest discussions happened between Marc Dusseiller and Miha Horvat, in September 2010 (inspired by visits to highly interesting festivals, such as cellsbutton in Yogyakarta or Pixelache in Helsinki), about visions of alternative modes of how to run a festival, how such international events MUST have a sustainable impact on local communities and how sharing, collaboration and Doing-Things-Together has to be more present in an exhibition context (instead of final pieces of art on a white wall). This finally led to the invitation of the Swiss co-production and co-curation by Marc Dusseiller and the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society for this years KIBLIX festival. During the year, we also established other moments of collaboration, such as the invitation of Monika Pocrnjić to co-assist the "diy makeaway" workshop series during the Electron Festival in Geneva, April 2011, or the technical co-production, as a collaboration with SGMK, Maki3000 and Marc Dusseiller, of the JewBox by Veli&Amos, two emerging street artists collaborating already between Maribor and Zurich, exhibited in Perla Moda, Zürich (October 2010), and KiBeLa, Maribor (March 2011). Additionally, we could initiate another emerging Slovenian Collective, Marko Batista and Natasha Mušević, to participate at the poolloop festival (by anorg, who will also participate at KIBLIX 2011) and collaborate during the SGMK@poolloop laboratory in Zürich (July 2011), again to bridge different sub-cultural communities and establish long-term networks. Finally, we are already planning to intensify these pre-festival collaborations by inviting a group of Slovenian artists to join the SGMK SummerCamp (Homemade DIY Arbeitswoche in Gais, Appenzell, August 2011) and for the participation for the workshops at "Create Your World" (the children festival, inside Ars Electronica, September 2011)

KIBLIX Educational Program 10. - 23. Nov

KIBLIX Laboratory

marc

omimorph4D - Fabienne Mayer & Marc Widmer (CH)

omnimorph is basically an open plastiline movement to share creative thoughts outside in the environment where you are living - playful street art maybe describes it best. The installation omnimorph4D can be considered as a stop-motion-loop-machine. Visitors can create their own short movies with plastiline where the background of the movie is again an other movie, either material collected during the festival/past festivals or previously created plastiline clips. Therefor it's basically possible to reuse own clips and create eternal loops. The whole software is based on puredata and GEM, both are freely available and open source.

Possible Workshops:
Build your own video-machine: Videoprocessing with open source sofware like Puredata, eiter with GEM, PDP-pidip or Gridflow
Cook your own plastiline: Alchemistic creation with ancient recipes and hidden formulas.
Kids-Workshop with similar topics.

http://omnimorph.ch/

pin fabbing - donation by bitnik.org and Olsen Wolf (CH)

KIBLIX Educational Outreach & Interventions

marc, miha, monika

KIBLIX Professional Workshops

marc

With these intensive workshops we will address a more advanced group of artists, tinkerers and hackers across the region to join the pre-festival phase, learn, share their knowledge and collaborate with each other. The participants of the workshop will be selected through a call and a limited number of them can be hosted, including simple accommodation if needed.

Art in a Suitcase - Effi Tanner (CH)

Suitcases are the ultimate sign of mobility. For an traveling artist it‘s the easiest thing to have his work as mobile as possible. Therefore we will talk about traveling, exhibitions, organisations and different kinds of (Art)spaces.

Kovčki so ultimativni simboli mobilnosti. Za potujočega umetnika je najlažje, da je njegovo delo kar se da mobilno. Zatorej bomo govorili o potovanju, razstavah, organizacijah in različnih vrsta (Art) prostorov.

YOU, in the center of the world - Tobias Hoffmann (DE/CH)

If you ever wanted to know, how to control a 230V plug, send data over the local network and react to messages from the internet, this course is for you. The internet of real things is about connectivity. Connect your computer and control real things.

• Tools : open sound control, networking protocol, PD, arduino API (software), arduino, wifi router (hardware)
• Participant should bring along : laptop with wifi, extension power cable, recycled toy or electronic or non-electronic motro driven gadgets.
• Required knowledge : ★★
  • One should know which version of operating system is running on their laptop (Linux / Ubuntu and other FLOSS OS, mac osx 10.5 or earlier (32 bits), mac osx 10.6 (64 bits), or windows xp, vista, 7.
  • One should know the administrator password/login of their laptop
  • One should know how to install a new driver, application on their laptop
  • One should know where to open network setting, open/close firewall setting
  • One should know where to open video/sound card setting

Hack A Sample:temp title - Jonas Ohrstorm (CH)

Jonas

FoldMe - dimension plus (TW/HK)

Contemporary origami has become a new way of stimulating creative ideas nowadays. Among its various applications, design, fashion, sculpture, architecture, biotechnology, interaction, engineering, and religion are some of the more profound fields that have been broadened. Fabric Origami Experiment Project (FOE) was founded by Dimension Plus with its vision of going beyond the limitation that’s long been implemented in the traditional industry. Their aim is to further explore the possibility in the society as well as a more abstract manner. This is an open experiment that welcomes everyone to join, and deepen its belief in folding anything imaginable!

Objective:

Understand digital software by using basic origami folding knowledge

Intermediate:

1. Yoshimura Pattern, Miura Ori Pattern, Diagonal Pattern

2. Intro to Tools

3. Texture, Paper, Garment

4. Application (Light, Interior, Fashion, Architecture, etc.)

5. Production (Craft ROBO)

6. Local Culture 1. Folding Structure Deconstruction

Advanced:

1. Folding Structure Deconstruction

2. Transformation (Parametric Origami, Rhino+Grasshopper)

3. Advanced Material

4. Craft ROBO 5. Kinetic Control (Arduino, Motor)

6. Kinetic Application

http://wiki.sgmk-ssam.ch/images/e/ee/Workshop_dimension%2Bfold_me_2011.pdf

review of collaborations for playaround: playaround.2010

Creative Radio - Framework Radio (UK/Estonia)

framework is a show consecrated to field-recording, and it’s use in composition. field-recording, phonography, the art of sound-hunting; open your ears and listen! Framework will develop together with local and international artists on the acoustic content for “creative radio”.

KIBLIX Festival 18. - 23. Nov

Exibition, Performance & Public Intervention

all team

Labs in Dialogue - KIBLIX (SI) <-> Piksel (NO)

Gisle & Piksel team, Tobi Hoffmann, KIBLA team

Regional HackLab Showcases - (HU/AT/CRO/SI/CH/TW)

• Bike Kitchen, Ebli, Linz

• GaudiLabs (SGMK & hackteria)

• I'MM_ hacklab, Zagreb

• New Media Cross Border

• H.A.C.K.

• Ljudmila, 3d Printing, Theremin

• Cirkulacja 2

• tba, Graz

• I love plants, Monika, Marusha, Spela

• local Maribor scene...

• Dusan Zidar

• Nova Gorica

• KMKG studio (AT)

inspired my mal-au-pixel.. thx!

Kinetic Object - Pe Lang (CH)

His work includes sound installations, live performances and compositions based on elegant and minimal kinetic systems, combined with different devices created by himself.

to be named - Enrique Thomas (ES)

Sound artist - interactive to other existing art forms - visual, computer performative - multifunctional interfaces expression Interaktovno na ostale obstoječe umetniške prakse – vizualno, računalniško performativno – vmesniki multifunkcionalnega izražanja.

Jewbox in Smoke - Veli & Amos (SI/CH)

to be updated

»v ŠUM_011« - Nova Gorica Students (SI)

What is needed to transform the creative processes in free connections between movement, sound and picture? How in this context describe (programming) and implement the interaction of different groups, eg. in the face "ignorant" child, "lay person" and "professional" artist? Kako je potrebno preoblikovati ustvarjalne procese v prostih povezavah med gibom, zvokom in sliko? Kako v tem kontekstu opisati in (programsko) izvesti interakcije različnih uporabniških skupin, npr. v soočenju »neukega« otroka, »laika« in »profesionalnega« umetnika?

Shaking hands with things - Nara Pfister (CH) & - Mirzlekid (AT/CH)

During the first days we want to collect material and acting-ideas from the streets, while moving through the city and the environment of the festival. With this things we want to do a performance. MIRZLEKID, Hansjörg Köfler (*1967) and Nara Pfister (*1981) are working as artist duo since 2004 in drawing, performance and installation. They are living together in Zürich, Switzerland. We take things up, which we find around our working space. By reacting to their characteristics, they lead us to act. We pass the things on each other and this generates a flow, which showes earnestness as well as humour.

Symposia

dusjagr, chaired by ... tba

Workshopology

dusjagr, Uschi (LiWoLi)

maybe invite uschi from liwoli as chair:

core.servus

What is "Workshopology"? ... to be continued

Confirmed speakers/performers:

• Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Ljudmila (SI)

• dusjagr, hackteria/FHNW (CH)

• Escher Tsai, dimension+ (TW)

• Effi Tanner, SGMK/ZHdK (CH)

• Urs Gaudenz, digital super/HSLU (CH)

to be confirmed:

• Uschi, LiWoLi (AT)

• Enrique Tomás (ES)

• Framework Radio (UK/Estonia)

• Paul Prudence (UK)

• Nora Dibowski, DKIA (DE/AT) http://dkia.at/

• Borut Savski, Cirkulacija 2 (SI)

• Špela Petrič (SI)

possible invitations:

• Gorazd Pleninsic, UNIL (SI)

• Ralf Schreiber or Christian Faubel (DE)

Remote Sessions

• remote: Andrew Gryf Patterson (SCO/FI)

• remote/physical: Marcos Garcia (ES)

Sound performances

miha, pei

KIBLIX 2011 - Participants List

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